Housing Kuwait's Future - Part 1

By T-Square

               This past spring semester, students enrolled in the Design 6 class were asked to think of innovative ideas that would help solve Kuwait's housing shortage, or at least better the quality of residential buildings in Kuwait. The assignment was to design a house within a 400, 250, 200, or 150 m² plot. The idea was to design a house with the same program (number of rooms and areas) as current governmental housing, but on a smaller plot of land. Although students were allowed to go up to 6 stories high (this is why some houses look like towers).

               It’s difficult to show the details of the student work through plans, sections, and elevations in this blog format, so we will only showcase some renderings that hopefully would inspire visions of a better way of living.

Design 6 class was taught by:
Dr. Qutaiba Hamada
Dr. Abdualmuttalib Al Ballam 
Arch. Sally Khanafer
Arch. Adel Al Bloushi

Student: Abdulla Ali

Student: Alaa Jamal

Student: Ali Al Yousifi

Student: Almaha Al Ajmi

Student: Esraa Al Shammri